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by Tony Kontzer
One of the things we're all quickly learning about a prolonged recession is that nothing is what it appears to be. Or maybe it is. The point is, none of us has any idea what to think.
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For most of you, the answer is probably "no." And if that's the case, you're far from alone.
At least that's what CDW found in it's new survey on CIO succession management. According to the report, only ....

A few interesting nuggets from our upcoming CIO Role study: CIOs are getting paid more in base salary in 2009, but their bonuses are dropping from last year.
According to more than 400 respondents, CIOs'....

UPDATE:
Several readers took issue with the current state of the H-1B system.
A reader named "Tunnel Rat" says CIOs will pay the price for bringing in sub-par foreign workers. "We are no longer getting....

Looks like IT is feeling the effects of the recession.
Eric Chabrow has good analysis of the latest IT employment stats at GovInfoSecurity.com.
His deciphering of the sometimes-confusing government dat....

Our 2009 IT Spending study delves deeply into what IT execs expect to do with their limited budget dollars this year.
With any downturn, fears of big cutbacks always arise. Many of you have already been ....

by Ericka Chickowski
As layoffs continue in the teeth of recession, CIOs may be hurting their chances for operational efficiency by letting certain people go.
A new report released by Forrester finds th....

Guest Blogger: Don Sears
I recently interviewed the Director of Technology of Duke Corporate Education, Steve Mahaley, who provided some insight on the effects the recession is having on corporate trainin....

Guest Blogger: Don Sears
A little peeved that TARP money helped fund executive bonuses in 2008? Some professors in Pennsylvania see it differently.
Wharton School of Business-- Harvard's main business-sc....

My latest column from eWeek delves into a huge problem for CIOs that never seems to go away: the perceived inability of IT leaders to effectively communicate the potential of IT to their fellow C-suite exe....

Just about every IT pro knows that when times get tough, things like services, staffing, training, and a few others almost always meet the business end of the cost-cutting axe, at least to some degree.
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Not too long ago we had some back-and-forth about the problems with IT transformation, with me claiming that communication failure has a lot to do with why no one really understands what the term means.
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IT workers made more in 2008 than they did in 2007.
The average information-technology pro made $78,035 last year, a 4.6% increase from 2007, according to tech job site Dice.com, which surveyed close to 2....

Ed Cone has a great perspective on Apple CEO Steve Jobs' announcement that he'll be stepping away from the company to deal with health issues.
While it'll be interesting to see how Apple fares (and if th....

Readers have been weighing in with some very insightful (and pointed) comments about IT transformation since we posted a blog item questioning how vague the buzzword is.
Some readers agreed that the term....